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August 13, 2024
Editorial

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

By: Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt

Keywords: Well-being; AI and Machine Learning; Work-Life Balance; Health Industry

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2024
White Paper

Healthy Outcomes: How Employers' Support for Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities Can Benefit the Organization

By: Joseph B. Fuller

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital

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August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Three Vignettes of Early Careers in the Life Sciences

By: Satish Tadikonda, Jacqueline Grant and William Marks

The case showcases three vignettes of career choice scenarios facing new graduates. How one navigates and handles these situations can have a significant impact on careers overall, with each vignette representing a situation likely to be experienced by most students in... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Job Offer

July 2018
Teaching Plan

Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin

This Teaching Plan accompanies the case HBS No. 317-028, “Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan. The case traces the origins of sustainable finance and investor activism through the career... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

March 2000
Case

Magdalena Yesil

By: Myra M. Hart and Mary Rotelli

Magdalena Yesil, investor and former entrepreneur, must decide whether to become a venture partner at US Venture Partners. This case discusses career progression, entrepreneurship, and deciding among career alternatives. Yesil's entrepreneurial experiences include... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships

October 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)

By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling

An entrepreneur's transition from chairman/CEO of a large privately held company, to chairman of a public company, to leadership in several large nonprofit organizations is chronicled. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

September 1996
Case

Craig Parks (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Lisa J. Chadderdon

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility

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Complex Assets - Alumni

Giving Complex Assets Giving Complex Assets Using assets besides cash to support HBS may offer greater tax benefits and enable you to make a larger gift. How it Works Gifts of complex assets include: Tangible personal property (e.g.... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Under the Hood

business school was to transition out of the finance world and into the sports niche,” Frood told SPEED.com (November 14, 2011). “NASCAR to me was on the periphery, but I knew what was going on.” For his part, Stewart said, “Brett is the type of View Details

Keywords: NASCAR; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Transportation

23 Jun 2017
News

A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship

tech CEOs in town I know who have been highly successful,” says Wilcox. “I’m looking for drive, intelligence, and charisma. I also look for whether or not the person has a streak of humility and a self-awareness of their own limitations,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

29 Mar 2017
News

Randy Day Named Perdue Farms CEO

Randy Day (AMP 165, 2003) has been named the new CEO of Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the United States. Day, only the fourth person to hold the CEO role in the company’s 100-year history, started with Perdue in... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation

population will expand by 150 percent. Recently, the Bertarelli Foundation also established a reserve around Belize's Turneffe Atoll. It is the world’s second-largest coral reef with more than 500 species of fish. “To be successful, you have to be View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

2020 Vision

When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum, President of the United States, most likely in 2020. (For those with a similar aspiration and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details

20 Sep – 02 Oct 2018
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Alumnae Circles Bay Area Open Houses

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

17 Mar 2020
Working Paper Summaries

From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior

Keywords: by Reto Hofstetter, Gabriela Kunath, and Leslie K. John

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our discussion of gender inequality... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

1979
Chapter

A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Return; Wages; Price; United States

October 22, 2012
Article

Interest Rate Pass-Through: Mortgage Rates, Household Consumption, and Voluntary Deleveraging

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Benjamin Keys, Tomasz Piskorski, Rodney Ramcharan, Amit Seru and Vincent Yao

Exploiting variation in the timing of resets of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), we find that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers... View Details

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Household Finance; Refinancing; Contract Rigidities; Debt Rigidity; MPC; Deleveraging; Personal Finance; Household; Policy; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics